- Title
- Who is publishing in the Journal of Sociology?: an analysis of author trends 1965-2008
- Creator
- McGee, Tara Renae; Germov, John
- Relation
- Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, 2009 (TASA 2009). The Future of Sociology: the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association 2009 (Canberra, A.C.T. 1-4 December, 2009)
- Relation
- http://www.tasa.org.au/conferences/conferencepapers09//environment.htm
- Publisher
- The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper presents the author characteristics of papers published in The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) journal, the Journal of Sociology (formerly the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology) between 1965 and 2008. The aim of the paper is empirically to identify trends in authorship. The review examines all articles published in the period (excluding book reviews). The rationale of the study is to reveal trends in who publishes in the journal in terms of authors’ academic rank, gender, institution, and country. A table of those who have published the greatest number of papers is also presented. Findings show that over time the gap between the proportion of males and females publishing has closed; more PhD students and research fellows are publishing in the journal in recent decades; the highest proportion of authors consistently come from the Australian National University and The University of Queensland; and most authors are located in Australia. Information such as this can inform editorial practices and serve to inform the membership and readership on the nature of the journal.
- Subject
- Australian sociology; authorship; history of sociology; Journal of Sociology; publication trends; The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/919879
- Identifier
- uon:9009
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780646525013
- Language
- eng
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